Some sample questions from this category:
* The Alicia Silverstone movie 'Clueless' was based on which Jane Austen novel?
* In which Dicken's novel about the civil court system of Victorian England was the villain disposed of by 'spontaneous combustion'?
* In which whiny poem does Coleridge lament his injured foot, and the fact that it keeps him from accompanying his friends?
* The sister of this poet is rumored by some, almost certainly falsely, to have had incestuous desires toward her brother.
* Anthony Trollope's 'Parliamentary' novels center on which character?
* The plot of George Eliot's 'Adam Bede' revolves around....?
* Which calamitous European event is the backdrop for Thackeray's 'Henry Esmond'?
* This performer of Shakespearean plays brought a broader, more 'Romantic' style to the portrayal of the Bard's characters.
* This Victorian author was wildly popular during his lifetime, but was dismissed as a mere 'journeyman' when his diaries were posthumously published, revealing he had a regular, daily writing 'schedule.'
* In whose works were these important {'localities':Fernhill;Laugharne;Rhosili;Cwmdonkin} {Park;Swansea} Bay ?
* Where did Dylan Thomas have his 'Boathouse'?
* Who was the woman author of such successful novels as 'Memento Mori' {(1959);'The} Ballad of Peckham Rye' {(1960);} 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie' {(1961);} 'The Girls of Slender Means' (1963)?
* Which of these Wilsons was the 24-year-old author of a successful analysis of the post-existentialist 'Outsider' in literature?
* Which of these authors might with some reason be called the 'voice of London's suburbia'?
* Who wrote the successful play, 'Educating Rita' , about a low-brow woman who takes an interest in poetry and subsequently gets involved in an affair with a deteriorating alcohol-addicted professor of literature ?
* Who reigned over post-war British poetry at Faber and Faber ,Russell Square, while Dylan Thomas reigned over the pubs around Charlotte Street till he died in 1953?
* Who wrote an eleven-volume sequence of novels in which we follow Lewis Eliot from lower middle class Leicester to Cambridge, then London and finally 'the Corridors of Power'?
* Which of these Theatre Companies first had Aldwych, then the Barbican as its homebase?
* In 1897 this writer was released from {prison;} he moved to France, wrote a ballad about his prison experience, and changed his name to Sebastian Melmoth. By what name is he better known?
* This novel begins and ends at the Pensione Bertolini, where Lucy Honeychurch and George Emerson first meet and finally honeymoon, but only after various tea parties, tennis, and a broken engagement back in England. What is the novel's title?
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